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Tomato Eggs

Tomato eggs is a popular Chinese recipe–a humble dish that is often served at home. Called 蕃茄炒蛋 or 西红柿炒蛋 in China, tomato eggs is basically egg omelet with tomatoes. As simple as it sounds, tomato eggs is hard to master. I have seen many tomato eggs that are not properly cooked–too runny, watery, or simply overcooked.

The good news is that I am going to share with you my tomato eggs recipe and the easy way to prepare this Chinese dish. It takes only a few ingredients: eggs, tomatoes, salt and sugar for flavoring, and chopped scallions for garnishing.

Tomato eggs is a great Chinese recipe that you should add to your cooking repertoire. I love it very much. Below is my tomato eggs recipe, try it out and happy cooking!

Great recipe. I’ve had different versions of this that friend’s have cooked but never learned how to cook it myself. I like this recipe, especially with the sesame oil and the Shaoxing wine. I’m going to check out your other recipes now. One minor note about this recipe: the scallions are missing in the ingredient list.

Woops, after watching your cooking method, I realised that how silly I am for this while to just pour tomato source into the egg and stir fried :p Ok, will try this out over the weekend. Thanks for the great recipe and method for such a wonderful dish that everybody loves.

I am reminded of my tours around China. Wherever the tour bus stopped for lunch/dinner, a big plate of tomatoes fried with eggs would be among the 6-8 dishes on the table. This simple, humble dish made a refreshing change from the usual oily food there.

This is a simple yet delicious and nutritious meal for my family. I also cooked the same dish based on tips from “So Far 苏 Good” cooking show. But your dish looks so great! Hey, I am ready with my rice now, dun mind to serve me some tomato eggs please?

You make it look so beautiful! I like your blog and am wading through all of the good stuff you have on here. I’m glad you left out the ginger on this one. My MIL puts so much ginger in it that it just overwhelms it.

Just cooked this dish for dinner tonite using yr recipe. It turned out great and my family loves it! Thanks for sharing this recipe and looking forward to more of such delicious recipes on your blog. :-)

I have been looking for a good Eggs & Tomatoes recipe for a while (there are about a million variations available online) and this one is absolutely perfect, and even more perfect when served with rice & some soy sauce.

My Thai-Chinese grandmother used to make a tomato-egg dish like this all the time, but she would fry the tomatoes first, seasoned with oyster sauce, sugar and salt, until the water in the tomatoes had come out and evaporated, then crack an egg or two into it, and fold the tomato over it without much stirring for another minute or two. It would be another vegetable dish in a meal, but for me, it’s my favourite comfort food just served with rice :)

Love that you’re bringing all my mother’s comfort food recipes to English. Whenever I ask my mother to translate her Chinese recipes (which are all done by approximation) to English, it usually seems to translate poorly to me. I’m glad to finally have something to follow.

I’m curious if you’d made (or have recipes ) of creamy corn soup or omurice or zongzi or other sorts of comfort foods. =)

I’d also like to add if you ever publish a cooking book with the recipes off your website, I would buy it. =)

I loveeeeee this dish! The easiest, yet most heartwarming dish to eat.

A tip for those who’ve failed, make sure your oil is sizzling hot before pouring the egg. Then when it comes to cooking the tomatoes, medium-to-low heat is best. See my blog post for the step-by-step pics.

Hey, thanks for the guidance. I’ve always cooked mine too runny or too raw. Now I have a question, I usually use regular onions instead of green onions to cook this. Would it be best to cook it before putting tomatos in?

I just tried this recipe tonight, can’t believe what a difference it makes! I never got ‘taught’ how to cook it, i usually stir in eggs after tomatoes and it never taste that great. You’re a genius! Thank you so much

I had this as a side dish at a tea shop the other day and it was the first thing I finished eating. This looks EXACTLY like the version I had and I’m running out to the store right now to get fresh tomatoes to make it!